Aiken, David Wyatt

David Aiken was a Confederate army officer who served as a congressman from South Carolina during the years after the war. Aiken had graduated from South Carolina College, a school once defined by its former president, Thomas Cooper, an early and controversial secessionist and a former Dickinson College professor.

Life Span
to
Full name
David Wyatt Aiken
Place of Birth
Burial Place
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
No. of Spouses
2
Family

Mattie Gaillard (first wife)

Education
University of South Carolina
Occupation
Politician
Farmer or Planter
Educator
Journalist
Relation to Slavery
Slaveholder
Political Parties
Democratic
Other Affiliations
Other
Other Affiliation
Grange
Government
US House of Representatives
State legislature
Military
Confederate Army
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